Chief Minsiter launches arsenic free water supply project

Deganga, Jun 15 (UNI) West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya today launched a Rs.43.89 crore second phase arsenic free water supply project at Kartickpur for some 8 lakh people of North 24 Parganas.

" We have no other way but to ignore opposition's hue and cry against development. we will have to set up industry anywhere in all the districts for the sake of the present generation, who have been passing out from hundreds of colleges and engineering institutions besides 17 universities of the state," the chief minister said.

" These educated youths will never go for the jobs in agriculture and we will have to create job opportunities for them in industries, Mr Bhattacharya asserted. "We have seen such hue and cry in other countries during industrialization, the Chief minister added.

Mr Bhattacharya said the state was self-sufficient in food products with the development in agriculture which reached at its peak as "we have crossed the rice production of 150 lakh tones".

"Now we needed development in industry along with human resources, the chief minister pointed out.

Earlier, Public Health Engineering and Housing minister Gautam Deb said that his department for the first time in the country utlised Information technology to run and control a modern water treatment plant commissioned at the Palta Water Works premises to eliminate arsenic and other hazardous elements from water.

The water supply system of the project would cover at least 382.1 square kilometer area of four blocks that include part of Barrackpore 2, Barasat-1, Amdanga and Deganga with the support of repair of boosting stations.

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